“He makes the boys work very hard but he is up for a laugh. I think that is what you have to get, the mixture of both.

“Him and Reidy have been fantastic since they’ve come in and I think you see that in the performances. The boys are on their toes they want to get the ball back, they want to press, so taking that into the last few games we’ve got a great chance of ending on a high.”

Freedman’s negative football was often criticised during his time at Forest and it seems that the fresh approach of Williams has a few more smiles on faces at the club.

He has however not yet won a game in charge, with an impressive draw with Hull City followed up by a defeat against local rivals Derby County.

Hopefully against his former club Brentford this weekend Forest can earn Williams his first win.

Mathew Nash

I’m Mathew Nash a 27 year old graduate in Sports Studies and I have an insatiable love for sport. With a particularly keen interest for the madcap world of football I have always been known amongst friends as a beacon for bizarre sporting trivia and knowledge. My other passion is for writing and hopefully combining the two will create a superb and entertaining marriage that will create, divide and share opinion.Mathew is a correspondent for the NextGen Series, Ligue 1 and Primeira Liga.